Eliza Hittman Quotes

United States, Screenwriter
1950

Eliza Hittman is a screenwriter, producer, and director born and based in New York City. Hittman was born and raised in Flatbush, Brooklyn. She attended Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, where she was a theater buff. She graduated from Indiana University in 2001 with a BA in theater and drama, but later went on to study art and film, and in 2010 received her MFA from the School of Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts.

Also known as Producer, Film Director

I think it's important to sort of normalize male nudity on screen, because women are always naked. And none of the male nudity in the film, I think, is unnecessarily provocative. It's meant to be everyday.

Eliza Hittman
- Women
- Screen
- Provocative
My father is a cultural anthropologist and my mother ran an outpatient clinic and treated a lot of people who had been institutionalised. I was very fascinated with behaviour and criminology and why people do things that don't make any sense. I would probe my mother: "Why? Why would somebody do this?" And look for some causality between someone's mental state and their behaviour. I think it had a lot of influence on me.

Eliza Hittman
- Mother
- Father
- Influence

I feel like there's more of a need to tell more optimistic stories.

Eliza Hittman
Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

Eliza Hittman
- Brand
- Tension
- Represents